Have $600 and 20 minutes to spare? Oh, and a strange yen for having pointy ears? How does elf-ear surgery sound?
Liv Tyler was such a slacker in 'Lord of the Rings.' Makeup? Bah! (Promotional image)There’s a new craze among kids these days: cosmetic surgery that gives you ears like Spock. By slicing the cartilage in the upper ear and sewing it back together in a point, “body modification artists” like Steve Haworth can give giant nerds the elfin ears they always wanted.
“There’s a lot of people out there have an inner vision of themselves, and they want to express that to the world around them,” he told ABC News‘ “Good Morning America.” “I’m very happy to be an artist that can provide that kind of work.”
That’s great and all, but the procedure is delicate, nearly irreversible and leaves the ear prone to infection while it heals, according to the ABC report. Plus – at least if you go to Haworth – you won’t get local anesthesia, because Haworth isn’t a real doctor.
Ouch, I say. But if you really want to look like you work at Santa’s workshop or live in Middle Earth, you can do it. After all, this is 2011. Though, I should remind you, this is the real world, not some fantasy land.
“It was just something I thought would be fascinating,” newly elf-ized Jordan Houtz told ABC. “Wouldn’t got as far as saying (I’m a) Trekkie, but definitely, you know, ‘The Lord of the Rings,’ all the sci-fi kinda stuff. It just fit my personality.”
View the ABC “GMA” video report on elf ears.
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